# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-ahmad-jalali
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:42:29.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-ahmad-jalali"
name: "Ali Ahmad Jalali"
slug: "ali-ahmad-jalali"
description: "Ali Ahmad Jalali is an Afghan politician, diplomat, and academic. Jalali served as the Minister of Interior from January 2003 to September 2005. He has also been a distinguished professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. In August 2021, amid the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government, Jalali was rumored to become the leader of the Taliban-controlled interim Afghan government, which he has denied on Twitter as \"fake news.\""
tagline: "Afghan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_Ahmad_Jalali.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.403132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/aliahmadjalali"
    handle:    "aliahmadjalali"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/aajalali"
    handle:    "aajalali"
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Алі Ахмад Джалалі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "على احمد جلالى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Jalali"
    title: "Ali Jalali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Ahmad_Jalali"
    title: "Ali Ahmad Jalali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "علی‌احمد جلالی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Jalali"
    title: "Ali Jalali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Jalali"
    title: "Ali Jalali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "アリー・アフマド・ジャラーリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Ahmad_D%C5%BCalali"
    title: "Ali Ahmad Dżalali"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "علي احمد جلالي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%90%D1%85%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B4"
    title: "Джалали, Али Ахмад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195902"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump